January 2013 - Bowie-Crofton Camera Club
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January 2013 - Bowie-Crofton Camera Club
Bowie-Crofton Camera Club Volume 32, Number 5 • January, 2013 A photograph by David Ebert of The Memorial Illumination at Antietam Battlefield National Park. See more from this field trip on pages 8 thru 10. THE VIEWFINDER 2013 Already? President’s Comments by Roz Kleffman, President By the time you read this, the Christmas wrappings will be all tucked away, the boxes recycled and the presents put in a safe place. Every year most of us get new camera gear for Christmas. Every year some of us put it away and don’t even start to use it. It is time to get that stuff out ~ yes, all of it, and look over what you have stored in that dark closet. Lots of stuff happens to electronics over time. Batteries corrode over time - even in a few months. Moisture in the air is the culprit. Tucking those electronics in a stuffy closet with little air circulation often leads to battery corrosion. Get the batteries out of those items that you seldom use. Think about a desiccant in your camera bag. You probably have seen those small bags that say “not for human consumption” on the label. Those liitle bags absorb moisture from the air. May help save your equipment from corrosive damage. Time to update your camera gear insurance policy. JANUARY 7 Competition Theme: At Peace Judge: Guy Stephens INSIDE Just decide to take a look at all the gear and add or subtract those items from your policy. Don’t have a policy? Most home owner policies have a a rider to put on camera gear or jewelery. Usually cost less than $100.00 per year for full replacement coverage for all your gear. Check it out! Put all that used equipment to the side. Consider giving it to someone. The club will be happy to try to give away your stuff. Just bring it to a club meeting and put it out on a back table with a “FREE” sign. Some folks may want to sell the equipment. That is OK too but you need to stay with the items and let people know it is for sale and the prices. Items that do not sell need to go back to your house. Be considerate. Space is limited on competition nights so please do not bring your equipment then. All other nights are OK. Have a happy and healthy New Year! 13 Holiday 19 Field Trip 21 Program 28 How-To Dinner page 7 Luray Caverns page 3 Antarctica page 11 Social Networking page 11 Travel Judge, page 3; Competition Results, pages 4-6; Photo Talk, page 7; Field Trip Photos, pages 8-10; Windows Filing, page 11 The Viewfinder • Bowie-Crofton Camera Club EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE President Roz Kleffman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301-464-1867 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [email protected] VP Programs George Smyth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410-964-1380 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [email protected] VP Membership Bill Collins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410-827-3369 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [email protected] VP Competition Zolt Levay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410-997-6436 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [email protected] VP How-to Bill Conway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410-326-0386 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [email protected] VP Photo Talk Steve Bruza . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410-247-5997 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [email protected] Treasurer Warren Wilson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301-552-4129 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [email protected] Secretary Pat French . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301-925-7713 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [email protected] PSA Representative Dick Whitley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301-899-6457 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [email protected] Newsletter Editor Vincent Ferrari . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301-249-2210 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [email protected] Social Director Gail Phillips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301-829-1972 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [email protected] STAFF Volume 32, Number 5 • January, 2013 Articles for The Viewfinder THE VIEWFINDER is distributed via e-mail early in the month and at the first meeting of each month during the club year. Contributions of articles of interest to photographers are welcomed. The deadline for submitting articles is the second Monday of the month prior to publication (ie, articles submitted in early October will be published in the November newsletter). Membership Rates Junior (ages 12-17) . . $5.00 Individual . . . . . . . . $25.00 Family . . . . . . . . . . . $35.00 Meeting Nights The Bowie-Crofton Camera Club meets the first through fourth Monday nights of each month September through May in the Fellowship Hall of the All Saints Lutheran Church at US 301 and Mt. Oak Road in Bowie. Meetings begin at 7:30. Visitors are always welcome. Competition Assistant James Oberthaler . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410-849-2682 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [email protected] Database Manager Dick Russell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410-923-2022 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [email protected] Field Trip Committee Leaders Vincent and Leslie Ferrari............301-249-2210 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [email protected] Webmaster George L. Smyth . . . . . . . [email protected] Web Editor Vincent Ferrari . . . . [email protected] Exhibit Coordinator Bob Matthews . . . . [email protected] GRANT PANEL Roz Kleffman, Warren Wilson, Jeff Kendrick, Appointed: Clarence Carvell, Elected: David Hornick 2 Articles should be sent via e-mail to [email protected]. Attachments as MS Word, .txt, or .rtf files are acceptable. Photos and illustrations should be separate attachments. Photographs should be submitted electronically as JPEGs with a “high” quality compression setting. The optimal photograph will be no more than 800 pixels in its greatest dimension. Photographic Society of America (PSA) The Bowie-Crofton Camera Club has been a member of the Photographic Society of America (PSA) since 1977. Dick Whitley, a PSA Region Director, is B-CCC’s representative to PSA. For information regarding the benefits of a PSA individual membership and for PSA-sponsored events contact Dick Whitley (301) 899-6457 or e-mail [email protected]. The Viewfinder • Bowie-Crofton Camera Club Volume 32, Number 5 • January, 2013 February Competion - Topic: “Travel” Our judge for February 4 will be Win Peterman by James Oberthaler, Competition Assistant Multi-media artist Win Peterman last judged for B-CCC in November 2010. She works in a variety of media including painting in oils, acrylics or watercolors, sculpting, fusing or casting glass, and mixed media. commissioned her work. Win’s glass art of a tiger and a tryptich called “Birds of a Feather” has been accepted to be in an upcoming book. The book will be Wildlife Art Today by Cindy Ann Coldiron and is to be published by Schiffer Books. We are pleased to welcome her back to apply her artistic sensitivities to February’s competition: Travel (see the assignment below). Win has participated in 27 juried exhibitions in 10 different states, some as far away as Oregon, Montana and Michigan to our west, and Florida to our south. She won first place in the Sculpture Division in the 72nd International Exhibition of Fine Art Miniatures in 2005. Her work is displayed in several galleries in Maryland as well as in Oregon, Arizona and Florida, and is sought after by collectors and by those who have The assignment is Travel: Fifty miles from Bowie makes a travel photo. A stronger picture would be one that suggests a different culture or geography. The Ernie Nagy Memorial Travel Trophy will be awarded to the entry judged Best in Show. For more information regarding our judge for this competition, please visit her website at: www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/w/winpeterman/ Print entries should be registered in by 7:15 p.m. January Field Trip: Luray Caverns Private Photographic Tour of the Cave on January 19, 2013 by Jeanine Cummins, Field Trip Leader As we approach the new year and close out another year of great photographic field trips we are looking forward to the beauty of the Shenandoah Valley and Luray Caverns on January 19, 2013. The Caverns were discovered over 130 years ago by a tinsmith William Campbell, Benton Stebbins, a photographer and several others, who were looking for a cave. The rest is history. Luray Cavern Motel, which has winter rates for Friday and Saturday for $60.00. Call for additional information and reservations from 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. daily at 540-743-6551 or toll free 888-941-4531. There are other attractions as well located at Luray Caverns- Luray Cavern Museum, Garden Maze and the Luray Singing Tower among others. Please refer to the website: www. luraycaverns.com Luray Caverns is about 118 miles southwest of Bowie Maryland. We will have a two-hour guided tour beginning at 8:30 a.m., allowing us to have access before the general public. We will meet at 8:00 a.m. Tripods, monopods and flashes are allowed. There is a wheelchair lift with a 375-pound limit. The inside temperature is maintained at 54°F. I will need to provide a head-count to Luray Caverns before the close of business, January 11. We can meet after the tour to decide on a place to eat. If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know. I’ve heard from some of you already; anyone else interested please contact me at 240-461-2914 or by e-mail at: [email protected]. Check the club’s website for updates. Since the drive is over two-hours long, some people may be interested in coming up the night before. There are hotels/motels in the vicinity including the 3 The Viewfinder • Bowie-Crofton Camera Club Volume 32, Number 5 • January, 2013 Competition Corner December Competition Results by Zolt Levay, VP for Competitions There were 125 total entries in the December competition with the theme “I was Framed.” It was inspiring to see all the creative ways photographers were able to interpret this theme. Congratulations to all the winners. Thanks to Karen Messick (www. karenlmessickphotography.com/ ) for taking on the task of narrowing down winners from among the many excellent entries, applying the theme to the entries, and providing useful comments to ponder and apply to future photography. Thanks too to everyone who helped with setup and cleanup and to make the mechanics of the competition run smoothly. the End of Year competition. Any photos that won any ribbon, 1st, 2nd, 3rd or Honorable Mention, in any competition during the club year is eligible. This includes several phases. For digital entries, if the photo is still available online, you need to change the date to the End of Year competition. If you removed a photo, you can re-submit it. For prints, deliver the winning prints to the Competition V.P. and submit a digital version to use for the slide show at the End of Year dinner. As usual, if you have any questions, contact me at [email protected]. Keep shooting, and see you at the next club meeting. Remember that we will be collecting photos for Novice Digital (30 Entries) Advanced Digital (34 Entries) 1st 2nd 3rd HM HM HM HM HM 1st Window Repairman. . . Stephen Bruza 2nd Workers in a Window . Jim Rogers 3rd New Mosque Istanbul .David Ebert HM Classic Chevy Truck Hotrod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Mike Thomas HM Deep in Thought . . . . . .Bill Conway HM Framing the Song . . . . . Stephen Bruza HM Girl in Window . . . . . . . .David Ebert HM Inside the Watchtower.. Vincent Ferrari HM Trailer in the Pines. . . . . AnnKrumrein Thirsty Hummer. . . . . . . Gary Kohn Lady in Red. . . . . . . . . . . Steve Kaben Framed and Neglected William E. Gibson View on Florida Bay. . . . Danni Downing Ballroom Entrance. . . . . Frank Lee Frame Within a Frame . Beth Fabey Hands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Steve Kaben The Hat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Kim Holley Novice Monochrome (11 Entries) 1st Nought May Endure But Mutability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Steve Kaben 2nd Realization. . . . . . . . . . . .Steve Kaben 3rd Sitting with Lincoln . . . .Albert Alexander Novice Color Prints (14 Entries) 1st Longlady. . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jeanine Cummins 2nd Thunderbirds Between Propellers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Albert Alexander 3rd The Magic Hour. . . . . . . .JoAnn Mikellian HM Afternoon Break . . . . . . .Robyn Ann Barnhart (Above) Trudge, 3rd Advanced Monochrome Prints, Warren E. Wilson (Right) Thunderbirds Between Propellers, 2nd Novice Color Prints, Albert Alexander Advanced Monochrome (14 Entries) 1st Room with a View. . . . . Robert Weston 2ndDwarf. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Warren E. Wilson 3rd Trudge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Warren E. Wilson HM Waterford Vase of Sunflowers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Beth Fabey Advanced Color Prints (22 Entries) 1st Two Bags Full. . . . . . . . . Stephen Bruza 2nd Penobscot Bridge #2. . .Chuck Bress 3rd Inside Out. . . . . . . . . . . . Steve Kaben HM Preah Khan Temple Ruins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -Marketa Ebert HM Attractive Decay. . . . . . . Zolt Levay HM Concord Light. . . . . . . . . Pat French More Competition Winners on Page 5 4 The Viewfinder • Bowie-Crofton Camera Club Volume 32, Number 5 • January, 2013 Competition Corner December Competition Results, Continued (1st row, l. to r.) Sitting with Lincoln, 3rd Novice Monochrome Prints, Albert Alexander; Thirsty Hummer, 1st Novice Digital, Gary Kohn; New Mosque Istanbul, 3rd Advanced Digital, David Ebert (2nd row, l.to r.) Dwarf, 2nd Advanced Monochrome Prints, Warren E. Wilson; Two Bags Full, 1st Advanced Color Prints, Stephen Bruza; Lady in Red, 2nd Novice Digital, Steve Kaben (3rd row, l.to r.) Girl in Window, HM Advanced Digital, David Ebert; Concord Light, HM Advanced Color Prints, Pat French; Window Repairman, 1st Advanced Digital, Stephen Bruza (4th row, l.to r.) Framing the Song, HM Advanced Digital, Stephen Bruza; Up, Inside the Watchtower, HM Advanced Digital, Vincent Ferrari; Workers in a Window, 2nd Advanced Digital, Jim Rogers More Competition Winners on Page 6 5 The Viewfinder • Bowie-Crofton Camera Club Volume 32, Number 5 • January, 2013 Competition Corner December Competition Results, Continued (1st row, l. to r.) Trailer in the Pines, HM Advanced Digital, Ann Krumrein; Inside Out, 3rd Advanced Color Prints, Steve Kaben; Realization, 2nd Novice Monochrome Prints, Steve Kaben (2nd row, l.to r.) Nought May Endure But Mutability, 1st Novice Monochrome Prints, Steve Kaben; Hands, HM Novice Digital, Steve Kaben; Attractive Decay, HM Advanced Color Prints, Zolt Levay (3rd row, l.to r.) Classic Chevy Truck Hotrod, HM Advanced Digital, Mike Thomas; Long Lady, 1st Novice Color Prints, Jeanine Cummins; Deep in Thought, HM Advanced Digital, Bill Conway 6 The Viewfinder • Bowie-Crofton Camera Club Volume 32, Number 5 • January, 2013 Photo Talk Meeting - January 14 Landmark Photography by Steve Bruza, VP Photo-Talk Some people might think that when a judge says “it looks just like a postcard” it would be a good thing, but often it’s followed by the word, “…out!” Why? There probably was not much going on or enough creativity to keep it in the running for the final round. It’s a classic dilemma for travel photography as we approach making an image of a familiar landmark or landscape. So, what to do? This will be our opening discussion for our Photo Talk on January 14. Another more challenging approach is to capture just a part instead of the whole landmark. Think of the motto “less is more.” Embrace the art of minimalism in your approach to making a photo of some iconic structure. For example, I am sure you have seen dramatic close ups of columns or steps on some of our national monuments in DC. That might inspire you to do something similar to capture a single piece of an edifice that would be unique enough to stand out in a competition. As always you need to pay close attention to lighting and composition and these aspects become more critical when isolating an object. Even the most skillful photographer can fall into the trap of taking a shot of some iconic structure or location just to document the fact they were there. We have all done that. In fact it may be good to do it a few times just to get it out of our systems. So after you have those standard pictures in your memory cards or on film how do you approach making a more notable photograph? There are actually some tricks that we will explore as we review images of landmarks made by award winning photographers. One that might surprise you is looking in the opposite direction to discover the possibility of reflections or shadows. After we explore the topic of landmarks we will look back at digital entries from our prior competition. We always learn a few things new things. Hearing the maker describe how or why they took a particular shot provides some ideas or you might learn something new about someone in the club. Like the radio announcer Paul Harvey would say, “the rest of the story” is sometimes more interesting, enlightening and often entertaining. Please join us on January 14 to hear the stories and have fun too as we critique our own work. B-CCC Holiday Dinner January 13, 2013 - 5:00 p.m. by Gail Phillips, Social Director Don’t forget! The Bowie-Crofton Camera Club’s annual Holiday Dinner will once again be at Hellas Restaurant (8498 Veterans Highway, Millersville, Maryland). This year it will be held on Sunday, January 13, 2013 from 5:00 p.m. until we’ve all had our fill. Telescope”. The price will remain at $25.00 per person. There is still time to sign up! You can do so at the January 7 club meeting or by e-mail to Gail Phillips at gail.m.phillips@ comcast.net. You can pay our treasurer, Warren Wilson, at the meeting, or you can mail your check to Gail (2716 Mt. Olive Court, Mt. Airy, MD 21771). Our number must be firmed up by January 8, so if you have not paid by the January 7 meeting, you will not be included in that count. Hope to see you all there! The program for the evening will be an “out of this world” experience! Zolt Levay has agreed to bring us some of his “work” work. Since he’s involved with the images from the Hubble Space Telescope, this should be a fascinating presentation. He’s entitled it, “A Tour Through the Universe with the Hubble Space 7 The Viewfinder • Bowie-Crofton Camera Club Volume 32, Number 5 • January, 2013 Photos From Field Trip to the Antietam Memorial Illumination Photographs from the annual event at the Antietam National Battlefield in Sharpsburg, Maryland Photo by Zolt Levay 23,000 Fallen, by Dick Russell Photo by David Ebert Photo by Vincent Ferrari Remembering Antietam, by Dick Russell Photo by Pat French Photo by Zolt Levay Photo by Zolt Levay 8 Continued on page 9 The Viewfinder • Bowie-Crofton Camera Club Volume 32, Number 5 • January, 2013 Photos From Field Trip to the Antietam Memorial Illumination Photographs from the annual event at the Antietam National Battlefield, continued Photo by Zolt Levay Antietam Farm House, by Dick Russell Photo by Zolt Levay Photo by David Ebert Photo by Vincent Ferrari Photo by Leslie Ferrari Photo by Vincent Ferrari Continued on page 10 Photo by Zolt Levay 9 The Viewfinder • Bowie-Crofton Camera Club Volume 32, Number 5 • January, 2013 Photos From Field Trip to the Antietam Memorial Illumination Photographs from the annual event at the Antietam National Battlefield, continued Antietam Monument, by Dick Russell Photo by Zolt Levay Photo by Zolt Levay Behind Every Tree, by Dick Russell Photo by Pat French Antietam Monument After Dark, by Dick Photo by Leslie Ferrari 10 Photo by Pat French The Viewfinder • Bowie-Crofton Camera Club Volume 32, Number 5 • January, 2013 January Program Meeting - Jan. 21 Barbara French Pace - The Challenge of Antarctica by George Smyth, VP Programs Barbara French Pace, a photographer who shows her work at Waverly Street Gallery in Bethesda, will discuss the challenges of shooting in Antarctica and the process of presenting a coherent slide show for a body of work. She will touch on sequencing, timing, varying composition, and audio support. A showing of “Antarctica: Journey to the End of the World” will cap the presentation. barbarapace-art.com Viewing Photos in Order in a Slideshow Using Vista Windows Photo Gallery A Computer Filing Tip by Beth Fabey Have you ever been frustrated when you use Windows Photo Gallery to show guests your photos from a flash drive, only to have the slideshow jump around and seem to pick your photos to show in random order? Try this solution: you get to 10, it won’t start intermingling the slides by going 1, 11, 2, 22, etc. You can batch rename photos in Windows. When the photos are in the order you want them to be in, select all and right click the first photo. From the menu select “Rename”. Type a group name followed by a space, the number 001 in parentheses, then the extension.jpg. For example: Bowie (001).jpg. Push ENTER. All files in the folder will automatically be renamed in sequential order. NOTE: If using Vista, type a name for the group, then a space, then 10001 inside parentheses, followed by the extension .jpg. For example: Cherry Blossom Festival (10001).jpg Then press ENTER. (If you don’t start with (10001), Vista will pull the last image to be the first shown—go figure!) If you are not already there, open a picture and click “Go to Gallery’ in the upper left corner. Then look for a search bar in the upper right and to the left of that search bar are four little squares. Click those four little squares for a scroll down menu, then click “Sort By>” and choose whatever you want; most likely file name but it could be date taken, etc. You will probably want to change the “Group By>” option as well (perhaps Date taken or None, Ascending Order?). You might need to number your images sequentially if you find that none of the sorting mechanisms is working for you, and then sort by file name. Once files are renamed, try again to sort the photos in Photo Gallery as described at the beginning of this article. Bill Conway suggests making all of the images the same name and adding a number after the new name that reflects the order you want it to appear in. Use 3-digit numbers starting with 001. That way, when Then again, you could always sign up for Dick Russell’s Pro Show Gold workshop being given this winter at our club to really do a slideshow up in style! It’s a great workshop and well worth your time. How-To Meeting - January 28 Social Networking and Photography by Bill Conway, VP How-To Ever feel socially inadequate? Well, I do every time I do that social networking thing on Facebook or Flickr. I’m totally lost and the network does its own thing. Well for this month’s How-To, Zolt Levay is going to shed some light on the mysteries of social networking. 11 The Viewfinder • Bowie-Crofton Camera Club Volume 32, Number 5 • January, 2013 The Viewfinder Bowie-Crofton Camera Club P.O. Box 515 Bowie, Maryland 20718-0515 Viewfinder printed by: www.b-ccc.org • [email protected] Member Photographic Society of America since 1977 12 PPC:REC:AR 12/12
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